Overview of Rangeland Animals

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Overview of Rangeland Animals
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Animals that Live on the Range

• 3 Major Types of Animals
• Livestock
• Wildlife
• Insects

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Foraging Patterns

• Herbivores are animals that each plants.
• Grazers, browsers, intermediate feeders
• Carnivores eat other animals including insects,
  birds, reptiles, or mammals.
  
• Omnivores are animals, like most humans, who eat
  a combination of animals and plants

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Humans and Animals

• Terminology can be confusing.
• Wild animals exist in a natural state
• Domestic animals have become accustomed to human
  control and provision
  
• Feral animals are domesticated animals that have
  been allowed to revert to a wild state

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How do animals digest food?

• Ruminants
• cows, sheep, goats, deer, elk, and moose
• Hind-gut fermenters
• rodents, rabbits, and horses
• Concentrate-selectors
• birds and bears